Ralf the Timid of East Angles Gael Earl of Hereford 
Ralf the Timid of East Angles was born about 1033 in Pontoise,Vexin,Normandy and his baptism took place in Mantes,France. Ralf the Timid of East Angles' father was Dreux of Pontoise Drogo Count of Vexin and his mother was Princess of England Goda or Godgifu. He had three brothers named Amaury of Pontoise the Delicate, Fouque of Amiens and Gautier of Pontoise le. He was the youngest of the four children. He had two half-brothers named Son of Eustace and Ralph de. He died on December 21st, 1057 in of Hereford,,Warwickshire,England.General Notes
!Also known as Ralf the Staller. [William I and the Norman Conquest]
WAITE, NEWLIN LINE
Earl of Hereford/East Angles; son of Princess Goda, sister of Edward the Confessor, by her first husband, Dreu, Count of Vexin, Pontoise, Chaumont and Amiens; m. Getha, an English heiress; father of Raoul de Gauder/de Gael,surnamed le Breton, lord of the castle of Gauder and Montfort-sur-Mer. [Falaise Roll, p. 74, 129]
Ralph the Timid Gael - son of Druex Vexin and Goda, Princess of England; m. Gytha Hereford; father of Harold, Baron Sudeley, and Ralph Gael. [WFT Vol 1 Ped 986]
Ralph the Timid, Earl of Hereford; d. 1057; son of Drogo/Dreux, Count of the Vexin, and Godgifu; m. Gytha. [Ancestral Roots, Line 250, p. 223; Line 235, p. 201]
Son of Dreux, Count of Vexin, and Godgifu; m. Getha; father of Harold de Sudeley. [Ancestral Roots, Line 235, p. 201]
King Edward's nephew, son of the king's sister Godgifu by her husband Drogo, count of the French Vexin; entrusted with Herfordshire.
Raoul the Gael was a very powerful Breton baron, Lord of the Castle of Guader. Roald Dubbed may have been a kinsman. [Devonshire Domesday Book (1086) <http://www.infokey.com/Devonshire/Devonshire.htm]
Son of Walter de Maunt and Goda. [Sudeley Castle & Gardens]
Keats-Rohan describes Ralph the Staller as "part English", citing a Breton document of c.1031 in which he is called "Radulfus Anglicus", the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and relations with English names mentioned in Domesday Book. She goes on to suggest that his father could have gone originally to Normandy with Judith of Rennes, who married Richard II of Normandy, and later to England with Richard's sister Emma. [Chris Phillips <cgp@medievalgenealogy.org.uk, 8 Jan 2003]
They had two sons named Ralf Le Breton de Gauder and Harold de Ewias of.
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Children
Ralf Le Breton de Gauder Montfort Wader Earl of Norfolk
Ralf Le Breton de Gauder was born about 1052 in of Gauder,Montfort-sur-Mer,Gael,Brittany. He died in 1095 in Outremer.1
Harold de Ewias of Sudeley 1st Lord Sudeley
Harold de Ewias of was born about 1068 in Sudeley Castle, England and his baptism took place in of Ewyas Harold,Herefordshire,England. He died after 1115 in of Burton Dasset,of ChilversCoton,Warwickshire,England.
1 Castles of East Anglia @ Norwich Castle
Further sources/citations:
William I and the Norman Conquest, Falaise Roll: Recording Prominent Companions of William Duke of Normandy at the Conquest of England @ p. 74, 129, World Family Tree Volume 1, pre-1600 to present @ Ped 986, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Seventh Edition @ p. 201
Further sources/citations:
William I and the Norman Conquest, Falaise Roll: Recording Prominent Companions of William Duke of Normandy at the Conquest of England @ p. 74, 129, World Family Tree Volume 1, pre-1600 to present @ Ped 986, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Seventh Edition @ p. 201
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